Punch Software Home & Landscape Design Studio for the Mac with NexGen Technology [Old Version]

by Punch Software

Product Features

• Get Started fast - reall! Even a beginner can build a house in 59 seconds!
• Video Tutorials launch right from the help menue. We'll help you from start to finish!
• Just hit the going green icon and watch your design become updated with energy efficient materials and objects.
• Smart Room technology allows you to simply drag & drop rooms, move or resize at will.
• Integrated Internet - shop for materials, find a contractor, or import from Google Sketch up, we just made the possibilities endless.
• With our revolutionary NexGen Technology you can build a new house or replicate your own house in just minutes

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.2 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001KQBVH4
• Item model number: 22800
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 8, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,565 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #40 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Home Design

Product Description

Punch! Home & Landscape Design Studio with NexGen Technology takes home, landscape, and interior designing to a new level--it's a new way to easier home design for the MAC! With our revolutionary NexGen Technology you can build a new house or replicate your own house in just minutes! New Intelligent Design feature, walls, paint, flooring, and more are moved, changed or updated with a click of the mouse. Building Green--click the feature, scroll over your design and the screen will highlight areas,energy or money saving tips and options. Web integration can add to the already thousands of objects provided in the program's custom library. With thousands of objects, planting materials, and interior options including decorator palettes and room templates your options are endless! Punch! Home & Landscape Design Studio with nexGen Technology, the shortest, most enjoyable learning curve you'll ever have.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

55 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Home Design Studio for Mac, September 8, 2009

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D. Snodgrass - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Punch Software Home & Landscape Design Studio for the Mac with NexGen Technology [Old Version] (DVD-ROM)

Honestly, I bought this to replace it's bigger brother -- thinking it would be easier and more intuitive and friendly with their new nexGen technology. This product has a steep learning curves and a thick, but useless user guide that explains each tool but not how to use it. I've tried (in vain) to design my upcoming remodel. In both programs, I stopped, just plain overwhelmed and discouraged.

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible, un-Mac-like software., July 8, 2009

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D. Eadie (Tifton, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Punch Software Home & Landscape Design Studio for the Mac with NexGen Technology [Old Version] (DVD-ROM)

I've used professional CAD packages like Cobalt that are far, far less frustrating to use. Very un-Mac-like behavior, very limited ability to edit existing walls, slow 3D performance on my iMac.

Wish I could recommend another home design package for Mac, but at least I can say, "Stay away from this one, folks!"

47 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars buyer beware UPDATED, July 18, 2009

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L. Hurley (Arizona) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Punch Software Home & Landscape Design Studio for the Mac with NexGen Technology [Old Version] (DVD-ROM)

It doesn't work. At least not on my MacBook Pro w/Leopard. I had high hopes for the program, but after several calls and e-mails to Punch! support we don't have a solution. Worse, the Punch! techs appear to have given up. On top of that, Punch! is refusing to refund the purchase price.

The good news is that Punch! actually has toll-free tech support and I was actually able to reach them fairly easily. And to a certain extent they've tried to help. Maybe some of you will have better luck than me. Or maybe not. Good luck.

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UPDATE: Somebody at Punch! figured it out. HDS is incompatible with the Mac's "case-sensitive" disk format and that's what I had. Don't know how I got that way or why it matters (Apple didn't know, either), but a complete erase, reformat, and reinstall later and the program is working with all objects and tools available.

so I would give it 3 STARS. It's a decent program - probably best at this price - but this hard drive format thing needs to be fixed.